If you are just curious, or looking for a way to test or develop .NET web applications under Linux, you should look at the Mono Project. Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language [...]

Tunisia – Monastir, Eleven years ago ; I was studying in the National Energy Engineering School – it was my second year- and like every year we have to work on a project related to energy engineering. In that time I suggested to work on Sizing of Ozone reactor for Water treatment, the subject wasn’t [...]

One of the applications that I’m working on uses archived documents, there is no NoSQL here, just plain tiff files with indexes in Oracle database. Everything related to document access, permissions, conversions, watermarking, security, encryption … is managed by the application itself. So I had to keep my cluster permanently connected to a SAN storage [...]

In an ideal system architecture using load balancers in separate nodes is preferred, however it’s also possible to have your load balancers in the same nodes with your applications. I have used in this architecture the same hardware as the previous Master/Master MySQL cluster, including Ubuntu server 10.04 x64, Apache2 as web server, two nodes [...]

I still can’t get why most ECM, DMS, e-Archiving solutions are in love with RDBMS, whatever the technology they adopt : MSQL, DB2, Oracle, … it’s not only about additional licenses (and cost) for the entire solution, but also about features and performance. The key feature in DMS, ECM, or e-Archiving solutions is the “Document” [...]

Today I was reading on Okaz newspaper a news about a contractor who abused of their confidence and programmed a password change after leaving his position at King Abdul Aziz University. Things that creates troubles in administrative transactions in the entire university. Without entering into further details, how this could happen, and why … It’s [...]